The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06
ARP'S CHERUBS.
Another One OF His Boys Dis
cards Knee Brooches.
CARL STEPS OUT IN pANTALooNs

! They played prank on me while was gone
/ TO Alabama. They transmogrifed my boy in
TO a man, or tried to. dident know him. for
lie had discarded his long stockings and knee
! brooches, and had on long pants and big
boys hat and a standing collar and blue
cravat He looked like he had grown six
incehs Alas for me- a dark shadow came
over my hilarity, and / felt like / had lost my
boy, my pet and the little Carl was gone--gone
never to return. He loves me all the same, L
know, but soon he will have other loves that
will slip in between him and me. When
boy gets on long pants he suddenly changes
his nature, and don't want to trot around after
you Ike he used to. / see it coming in Carl
lie keeps his forepaws clean now, very clean,
and works on his finger nails and brushes
his hair and wears sleeve buttons and takes
sly looks in at the glass. He is noticing, they
say, and talks abont sweethearts. And so we
have to surrender to the inevitable. We viii
have him but n few years more, and then he
too viii leave us just as th3 other five have
done. II he won't stray away oil ana get sick
we will try to be reconcied And soon Jessie
will 20 too--our darling-the last and sweet
est Of all and then what will the Old folks do?
They will have to find new pets in the grand
children, and 50 it will all work out right in
the long run. May be it will. L hope it WILL
for solomon says the glory Of an old man is
his childreu'S Children
But Old age is not without its comforts and
consultations. We had a family reunion the
other day An the children and grandchil-
dren gathered at the paternal mansion, and
for q whole week we had a carnival Of love and
peace and joy The big pot was put in the
HOtlc pot. The turkey gobber was sacrificed
upon the altar Of maternal love, and the tur-
key hen came next and we had chicken
enough for a dozen preachers. The boys fare
fond vi fried chicken andi snothered chicken
and roast chicken and any other kind Of chick
en-, ana orr New York boy told how the New
York chickens did not taste good-not good
like the chickens at home. That boy kept the
family in an uproar, for he, too, has been trans
mogriicd and talks yankee and is precise in
language and manners. He calls himself the
pGuper and his Virginia brother the million
aire, lie wrote an advance letter and said
that the millionaire and the pauper would
meet at Washington city and come home to-
gethcr- and so they did. The pauper sent on
his ratons ahead so as to he sure of plenty to
eat. The dray came up from tho depot loaded
down with sugar and coffee, and tea, and yam
kCe butter, and cheese, and canned goods and
preserves, and SO FORTH enough for regiment.
/ like these pauperS who do that way, but it Is
a way that will keep them paupers, l recken
The Virginia boy is making money build
ing railroads. lie is accommodating, and
maybe he will some day be capitalist" as
Cobe calls it--and SO we call him the million
aire lie dident send any rations. but
brought his pocket book along. My girls had
told their mother that they were just obliged
to have some clothes il they went to Florida,
and their mother gave em gentle hint that
meant business. Girls are always out of
clothes and are just obliged to have them
obliged to have them. 1t reminds me of the
uishman who saw that the only way to get
rich was to buy nothing that you were obliged
to have
But before / had fnanciered the ways and
means for the clothes these boys and the mil
lionaire found out the great necessity, and